Every time a OLPC history is published on slashdot we get a a series of "omg! people outside the US or EU live in mud huts and do nothing but starve all day long!!!11" comments.
Notice how the only country of the list of buyers (if you can locate them in the map, that is) under YELLOW is Nigeria. And how Argentina is actually in GREEN. That will be all, thank you.
I hear those sanctions worked real well there. And now America is threatening Iran with an embargo that has never worked anywhere else. Any bets on how long it'll take for Iran to not care?
They worked really well, just not for what they were advertised for.
Gentoo is a distribution that makes fiddling with the interns of your system and software easier by providing tools that automate much of the work without loosing a bit of flexibility. If that doesn't sound interesting to you, then don't use gentoo.
Yes, but portage does this meddling a lot quicker, simpler and it remembers your choices on every update, no need to editing random configuration files inside tarballs (and every time you update), and reading INSTALL or README files, just #flagedit media-gfx/imagemagic -perl and you are set for life.
Because people are morons, plain and simple A friend of mine used to have a quite big video store and allowed anyone to use the bathrooms, even if they werent buying anything, only to see the same thing happen (piss on the floor, shit on the walls), of course, it all stopped once he closed the bathrooms doors, and only gave the keys to customers.
I'm also an Argentinian, and the reactions of most slashdotters really puzzles me.
We are NOT living in mud huts.
Out literacy level is 97.1% [source]
Our GDP per capita is $13,100
Look at the Human Development Index Map, see that big country at the southmost part of south america? the GREEN one? That's Argentina
And one would think "geeks" would be the educated tipe of person...
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we will use triple click!
Here is another, more detailed map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HDImap_current. png
Every time a OLPC history is published on slashdot we get a a series of "omg! people outside the US or EU live in mud huts and do nothing but starve all day long!!!11" comments.
I will simply point you to the human development index map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HDImap2006.png
Notice how the only country of the list of buyers (if you can locate them in the map, that is) under YELLOW is Nigeria.
And how Argentina is actually in GREEN.
That will be all, thank you.
Well, it works like this, the first part is having no life... well that's actually all there is to it.
I'm off for my chronic masturbators support group meeting.
the US doesn't *own* the "internet", we are just using mirrors of their DNS servers and we can very well stop doing so in a day or two.
/etc/init.d/iptables stop
of course, is lees likely that someone is running as root in linux than someone running as administrator in windows, but you get my point.
Hi, I'm from South America, and no one here has ever seen baseball outside tacky american movies, let alone play it.
And he said anything about using linux... when?
please listen to this men! (and do what he said...)
There is: Barrapunto.com
You are all going to hell, everyone who posted in this thread is going straight to hell, and also I will for laughing so fucking hard.
Gentoo is a distribution that makes fiddling with the interns of your system and software easier by providing tools that automate much of the work without loosing a bit of flexibility. If that doesn't sound interesting to you, then don't use gentoo.
Yes, but portage does this meddling a lot quicker, simpler and it remembers your choices on every update, no need to editing random configuration files inside tarballs (and every time you update), and reading INSTALL or README files, just #flagedit media-gfx/imagemagic -perl and you are set for life.
There, a +5 Interesting just for you.
It would be funny if I wasn't called to fix something in the middle of my sandwich.
Because people are morons, plain and simple
A friend of mine used to have a quite big video store and allowed anyone to use the bathrooms, even if they werent buying anything, only to see the same thing happen (piss on the floor, shit on the walls), of course, it all stopped once he closed the bathrooms doors, and only gave the keys to customers.
Well, Nvidia might not release their drivers as Free Software, but at least their drivers, unlike ati's, work.
I don't know, but at least they can do it themselves.
After all it's just a series of tubes.
vaporware? I use it every day on my desktop.
Some people's browsers hang with PDFs, even when you set them to NOT open it with the plug-in. Don't ask me why tougth.
I'm also an Argentinian, and the reactions of most slashdotters really puzzles me.
We are NOT living in mud huts.
Out literacy level is 97.1% [source]
Our GDP per capita is $13,100
Look at the Human Development Index Map, see that big country at the southmost part of south america? the GREEN one? That's Argentina
And one would think "geeks" would be the educated tipe of person...
Perhaps you should try a paid distro, wich includes most of these things.
You can't expect a free distribution to pay for licenses of media formats.